Toy register bank



Nov. 15, 1955 J. FARBER TOY REGISTER BANK Filed Sept. 24, 1954 NVENTOR.Jacoj'arbe ATTORNEY.

United States Patent O TOY REGISTER BANK Jacob Farber, New York, N. Y.

Application September 24, 1954, Serial No. 458,189

1 Claim. (Cl. 23S-100) This invention relates to toy register banks, andan object thereof is the provision of a new and improved constructionwhereby, upon deposit of a coin, the recording indicia automaticallyrecord the new total conftained in the bank, the structure containingtwo gears,

one of which is moved through a tooth each time a coin is deposited, andthe other of which is moved through a tooth by the rst gear uponcompletion of each revolution of the latter.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a novel spring meansof unitary construction engaging both of the above-mentioned gear tolimit them to rotation through an arc of one tooth at a time.

Still another object of the invention is the provision of a toy registerbank which is extremely simple in construction and operation andinexpensive in cost of manufacture.

The above as well as additional objects will be clarified in thefollowing description wherein characters of reference refer tolike-numbered parts in the accompanying drawing. It is to be noted thatthe drawing is intended solely for the purpose of illustration and thatit is therefore neither intended nor desired to limit the inventionnecessarily to any or all of the exact details of construction shownexcept insofar as they may be deemed essential to the invention.

Referring briefly to the drawing, Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a toyregister bank embodying the features of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 4.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a rear elevational view of the bank, with parts broken awayand partly in section.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the two gears of the device and theslide door for opening the bank to remove the coins, showing the gearsin position to permit lifting of the door when the capacity of the bankhas been deposited and showing the door in fully lifted position.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the housing of the bank comprisestwo preformed and fitted interlocked portions 10 and 11. The former is asingle piece including the bottom or floor 12 and the two side walls 13and 14; the latter is also a'single piece, including the rear wall 15,the roof 16, and the sloping front wall 17 whose lower portion has astep formation 18 to simulate a cash register.

Pivoted in a common horizontal plane against the roof 16 are two wheels19 and 20, each having ten spaced depending teeth 21 and 22,respectively. A slide 23 is slidably supported in rails 24 against theinner surface of the wall and has a handle 25 extending forward throughthe wall at right angles to the slide. A portion of the wall 17 inalignment with the slide, at the left, Fig. 1, is cut away at 26 topermit movement of the handle 25 a 2,723,802 Patented Nov. 15, 1955 ICCgiven distance to the right. The other end of the slide, inside thehousing, has a U-shaped coin-holding deformation 27 at right angles tothe slide. A spring 28 secured at one end to the wall 17 and at theother to the slide, normally keeps the slide in the position shown inFigs. 1 and 3, stopped by the rails 24. A coin slot 29 through the wall17 is aligned with the entrance 30 into the deformation 27, Fig. 2. Ashelf 31 is secured against the wall 17 under the slot 29.

When a coin, such as a dime, for example, is inserted through the slot29 it enters the coin-carriage 27 and rests on the shelf 31. Then, uponmovement of the slide 23 by means of its handle 25 to the right, Fig. 1,upward, Fig. 3, the coin 32 will be moved off the shelf to drop tothefloor. As seen in Fig. 3, however, during such movement of the coin itwill engage a tooth 21 of the gear 19 and turn the gear throughone-tenth a revolution. The number of dimes thus deposited will bevisible through an opening or window 33 in the roof, in the usualmanner, owing to the series of numbers 34 printed on the gear 19.

The gear 19 has a long tooth 35 extending outward toward the gear 20, sothat once each turn of the gear 19 the tooth 35 will register betweenteeth 22 of the gear 20 and turn the latter through one-tenth of arevolution. The

number of one-tooth turns through which the gear 20 has thus been turnedwill appear through the window 36 owing to the series of numbers 37 onthe gear 20. A blind window 37 on the roof adjacent the window 33, isprinted with a zero. Thus, the window 33 in cooperation with the window37 will always read the sum of the dimes deposited in excess of or lessthan an even dollar amount, while the window'36 will read the dollaramount.

To limit each of the gears to rotation through a single tooth-length arcat a time, the following means is provided. A unitary length ofresilient material in the form of a strip is deformed to provide a base38 secured against the rear wall 15 between the gears 19 and 20; thestrip has its extremities, or extensions, deformed to extend forwardfrom the wall 15 and in a mutually converging direction, shown at 39 and40. Each extension of the strip has a hump 41 formed near its end,adapted to engage in the space between two successive teeth of the gear.Thus both gears, when turned, are under constant frictional engagementwith the extensions or springs 39 and 40, and as soon as either hascompleted a onetooth turn the hump of the spring snaps into the next successive space and thus stops the gear from turning too far or beinginadvertently returned to its original position.

A coin removal opening 42 is, as usual, provided in the back wall 15,and a vertically slidable door 43 normally closes this opening, becauseof the spring 44. Approximately the upper half of the door is cut awayin its intermediate portion to provide two like upstanding arms 45slidable through slots 46 in the roof parallel with the rear wall 15.The arms are provided with forwardly extending wings 47 at right anglesto the door, terminating below the upper ends of the arms 45 andnormally positioned, when the door is closed down, below the gears 19and 20. The gear 20 has a slot 48 and the gear 19 a similar slot 49,however, through which the wings 47 may pass upward when these two slotsare both aligned with the wings, which is the case when the sum of thecoins deposited in the bank is equal to its capacity, say, for example,ten dollars. Then the door is free to be raised, provision, of course,being made in the roof by providing additional slots 50 communicatingwith the slots 46 in the roof, for the passage through the roof of thewings 47. A hand grip 51 is provided on the door so that itI may beraised against the force of the spring 44.

Obviously, modifications in form or structure may be provided withoutdeparting from the spirit or scope of the invention.

I claim:

A toy register bank comprising a housing simulating a cash register' andincluding a rear wall, a bottom wall, side walls, a sloping front wall,and a roof, a wheel rotatably mounted against the roof and havingdepending spaced teeth, a horizontal slide slidably mounted against thefront wall and having at one end thereof a forwardly extending handle,said front wall having a cut-out portion at one side thereof having saidhandle project therethrough, a coin receiving slot in said front wall,the other end of said slide having a U-shaped deformation comprising acoin carriage the entrance of which between the ends o'f the arms of theU faces the front wall and is normally positioned in alignment with saidslot, resilient means normally urging said slide toward one side of thehousing, limit stop means limiting movement of the slide toward said oneside as aforesaid, a flat shelf secured under the base of said slotagainst the front wall and sloping downward into the housing at rightangles to the front wall, said coin carriage being open at the top andbottom between the arms of the U and having a heightl substantiallysmaller than the diameter of the coins to be used, the distance betweensaid shelf and said wheel being approximately equal to the diameter ofthe coin whence when a coin in said carriage rests on said shelf andagainst the base of the U and the coin projects into a space between theteeth of said wheel, movement of the slide handle toward the middle ofthe front wall causing the carriage to carry the coin across the shelfand simultaneously causing the coin to turn said wheel through an arc ofone tooth, said shelf having a width such that upon completion of saidone-tooth turn the coin passes over the shelf and falls to the bottom ofthe housing, and resilient means engaging said wheel for limitingrotation thereof to an arc of one tooth at a time.

Cambell Dec. 25, 1934 Faber Dec. 23, 1952

